TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter,Charles R.
TI  - Spanish Water, Anglo Water: Early Development in San Antonio
SN  - 9781603443258
AV  - HD1695.S35 -- P676 2009eb 
U1  - 333.91009764/351 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - College Station
PB  - Texas A&M University Press
KW  - Water rights -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
KW  - Water-supply -- Social aspects -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
KW  - Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
KW  - Water -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Distribution -- Management -- History
KW  - Land tenure -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
KW  - Irrigation canals and flumes -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
KW  - San Antonio (Tex.) -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENT S -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 DROUGHTS AND DELUGES -- 2 THE COUNTRY OF 1,10 0 SPRINGS -- 3 EYEWITNESS REPORTSOF GOD'S WATER -- 4 MISSIONS SET TLE SAN ANTONIO -- 5 ACEQUIA TECHNOLOGY -- 6 DERECHO INDIANO-LAWWITH JUS TICE -- 7 WATER, LAND, AND WORK -- 8 CONFLIC T, COOPERATION,AND COMPROMISE -- 9 NEW PEOPLE, OLD LAWS -- 10 ACEQUIAS OVERWHELMED -- 11 THE FIRST WATER WORKS COMPANY -- 12 WATER-POLITICIANS' "GOLD" -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
N2  - Porter offers a meticulous chronicling of the origins and often-contentious development of water rights in San Antonio from its Spanish settlement through the beginning of the twentieth century
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